oh yeah what's going on real-life ER I'm
Ethan your real-life English fluency
coach today we have a really great TV
series How I Met Your Mother and the
scene is absolutely hilarious it made me
crack up so much you're going to learn a
lot of great vocabulary having to do
with education but in a bit of a
different context than you might be
expecting because first off do you know
what a cougar is so a cougar is a slang
expression for an older woman who
sexually pursues younger men or younger
lovers so also if you do not know how i
met your mother you're going to need to
know the character barney who is the
main one featured in today's scene he is
a bit of a player which is another slang
expression for you meaning that he is
infamous for having sex with a lot of
different women it goes without saying
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that's that's professor Lewis's office
there okay let's take a look
oh yeah
that's a cougar all right all right
specimen see you can identify a cougar
by a few key characteristics start with
the hair the Cougar keeps up with
current hairstyles as a form of
camouflage and the prey may not realize
that he's engaged to convert until he's
already being dragged helpless back to
her lair now the blouse the Cougar
display is maximum cleavage possible to
captivate her prey you're watching them
bounce she's about to pounce
I see the claws long and sharp to ward
off rival females or open alimony checks
the beaut go Barney
don't Mountain stuff that cougar let's
go see hi I'm Luigi it's an exchange
student I was walking to class but then
I noticed you Bella principessa tell me
what you want to get out direct I like
that the name's Barney what I want is
you
turn around my place two hours hmm see -
see my what are you talking about it
here
he didn't budget you time well you've
lost over some of the most important
voice and your oral presentation was
sloppy and inconclusive I think I'm
falling in love with you
Oh God that wasn't your first time was
it although that would explain a lot we
had sex yesterday oh right that well you
had sex yesterday yeah
I revised my syllabus for the spring
semester
I can't stop thinking about you please
give me another chance
Barney I teach all day it's the last
thing I want to do when I get home but
you don't understand see either going
easy on you hold him back because I was
afraid you'd break a hip or something
at this time no mercy I don't care how
long it takes days weeks half a year
fine come in you can start while I
finish grading some papers Barney oh my
god what happened he broke his hip
that's not true it's just temporarily
dislocated seriously I'm fine no he's
not fine loose hey mr. Erickson hello I
graded your paper tonight I was
pleasantly surprised yeah she was b-plus
Marshall after I've gone through my
eight weeks of physical therapy I am
gonna get you that a let her go she
belongs out there in the wild you should
feel proud you fought the Cougar he
lived
it was an amazing safari I can't wait to
show you guys the slides
[Music]
that's a cougar alright
specimen a prime specimen so this whole
scene is like a parody of a National
Geographic documentary about a wild
animal and you will hear many
collocations that are common within this
context prime is used to say that
someone or something is a very good
example of a particular kind of person
or thing a specimen is an individual
animal or plant in this case Barney says
she's a prime specimen of a cougar in
other words a perfect example another
common collocation is prime example
which means a very good example of
something example he's a prime example
about how you should run a business the
Cougar keeps up with current hairstyles
as a form of camouflage keep up with to
learn about or be aware of current news
and events or in fashion to know the
latest trends example I can't seem to
keep up with all the technological
advancements nowadays this is what the
title of a famous American reality show
Keeping Up with the Kardashians means
that is the show is about the events and
developments in the bizarre and
extravagant lives of the members of this
family camouflage in nature camouflage
is the color or shape of a plant or an
animal's fur that mixes with their
environment and makes it difficult for
predators to see it is also common for
soldiers to wear camouflage or camel
here her hair is a way for the professor
to camouflage or hide her real age the
prey may not realize that he's engaged a
cougar
until he's already being dragged until
he's already being dragged helpless back
to her lair prey an animal that's
attacked by a predator for example
gazelles are prey to lions leopards and
many other big cats he's already being
dragged helpless back to her lair to
drag is to pull something across the
ground to be helpless is to be in
capable of solving a problem and a lair
is the place where a wild animal sleeps
this whole part is funny because they're
using language that compares the Cougar
in this scene to what a real cougar
would do to its prey in the wild the
Cougar display is maximum cleavage
possible to captivate her prey to
display synonym of to show example
closer displayed in the store window it
can also mean to show a particular
feeling emotion skill etc that you have
example Leonardo DiCaprio displayed his
acting skills in Titanic cleavage the
space between a woman's breasts
especially when it can be easily seen
captivate if you're captivated by
someone or something you find them
fascinating and attractive almost in a
magical way example when I was a child I
was captivated by dinosaurs you were
watching them bounce she's about to
pounce bounce to move up and down like a
basketball pounce to suddenly jump
toward and take hold of someone or
something this is the action that many
predators do when trying to catch their
prey
I see the claws long and sharp to ward
off rival females or open alimony checks
claw the sharp curved nails at the end
of some animals feed word off to avoid
being affected by a danger example in
the wild most animals have some kind of
defense mechanism to ward off predators
alimony a payment to a former spouse
following a separation or divorce this
is funny because it doesn't really fit
with the rest of the analogy of the
cougar Butte a butte short for a
beautiful thing a particularly fine
example of something example this 1980
Mercedes is a beaut don't mountain stuff
that to death
go mount and stuff that cougar stuff and
mount is what a hunter might do with an
animal he killed as a trophy to mount
can mean to put on display and to stuff
meaning to fill a dead animal in order
to preserve it a practice that is known
as taxidermy however this also can be
understood in a different way and
continues with the analogy to mount also
means to get up on an animal most
commonly a horse or a bicycle in or
to write it it's also the action a male
animal does when climbing on top of a
female in order to have sex and stuff is
a vulgar way to describe a man having
sex with a woman tell me what you want
to get out tell me what you want tell me
what you want to get out what I want is
you what I want is you what I want is
you
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don't be tardy done or happening late
use globally by teachers for when a
student arrives to class late often
penalized in the USA see - see - the
American grading scale for school does
not use numbers but rather letters the
best grade one can get is an a 90% or
more for exceptional work and it
continues as follows be eighty to ninety
percent above average see 70 to 79
percent average D 60 to 69 percent below
average this is usually not sufficient
to pass class F 59% or less fail the
worst grade one can get with each of
these if it is that the high or low end
of the grade we can add a plus or minus
respectively so I see - would be great
that is at the low end of
average or below average note when the
professor speaks it is funny because she
uses a lot of analogies with the school
system to criticize Barney's sexual
performance as we see here the sex was
below average in her opinion and in the
following definitions pull an
all-nighter to spend the night without
sleeping at all especially in order to
finish an important project or to study
example I pulled an all-nighter on
Tuesday to get the school assignments
finished the joke here is that Barney
didn't pull an all-nighter to study but
rather to have sex you didn't budget
your time well you've lost over some of
the most important voice you didn't
budget your time well your budget is the
amount of money you have available to
spend for a certain period of time as a
verb it means to make and follow a plan
for spending that money example I just
lost my job so we need to follow a
strict budget until I find a new one in
this scene she's using the collocation
to budget your time which refers to how
you administrate or use your time gloss
over to ignore or treat something with
less care than it deserves example the
course only glosses over the basics and
gets more in detail about the more
technical aspects of programming and
your oral presentation was sloppy and
inconclusive your oral presentation was
sloppy an oral presentation is an exam
given through speech rather than writing
but here it is obviously a metaphor for
oral sex
sloppy means disorganized or lacking in
care that wasn't your first time that
wasn't your first time was it I revised
my syllabus for the spring semester
syllabus a list of the main subjects in
a course of study example the teacher
usually hands out the syllabus at the
beginning of the semester give me
another chance give me another chance
give me another chance
Barney I teach all day I teach all day
this is funny because she's saying that
the last thing she wants to do when she
gets home is teach because Barney is so
bad at sex that she has to teach him
it's he either going easy on you
hold him back because I was afraid you'd
break a hip or something going easy on
someone to do an activity or play a game
against someone while not giving your
best effort
because the other person isn't as good
or skilled as you for example if you
play chess against someone who's just
learning you might decide to go easy on
them so that he can have a better
opportunity to learn example the only
one because I was going easy on you
let's have a rematch and I'll go all-in
hold back this has a very similar
meaning to go easy on someone if you
hold back you purposely don't do
something as well as you could hip bones
that connect the torso to the legs
at this time no mercy I don't care how
long it takes no mercy
mercy is a kind or forgiving treatment
of someone who could be treated harshly
example although he committed a minor
crime the judge showed no mercy in
census him to 15 years in prison
example the teacher decided to show the
students mercy by giving them an extra
week to finish the project it's just
temporarily dislocated seriously I'm
fine
dislocated to disconnect two bones
through excess force fine to be okay
that is healthy or content example I
fell in my exam but I'll be fine
it just means I have to study harder for
the next one well I graded your paper
tonight she belongs out there in the
wild belong in if someone or something
belongs in a certain place they fit in
that environment because they have the
specific characteristics that match that
place for example a cougar belongs in
the jungle and not in a family house
another example is that you could say
that a soccer player doesn't belong in
Real Madrid meaning that he isn't
skilled enough or it isn't a good fit
but that he perhaps could belong in a
minor team the wild an area in its
natural state or not modified by humans
where animals live it wasn't amazing
safari I can't wait to show you guys the
slides Safari a journey to see or hunt
animals especially in Africa I can't
wait to show you guys the slides a
slideshow is a presentation like
PowerPoint given via a projector he used
to be common that after one would take a
trip somewhere she would invite her
friends over to show them a presentation
of all the pictures she took on her trip
the pictures would be the slides in the
present
this is funny here because Barney slides
from his Safari with the Cougar would
obviously be pornographic in nature
that's that's professor Lewis's office
that okay let's take a look oh yeah
that's a cougar all right specimen see
you can identify a cougar by a few key
characteristics start with the hair the
Cougar keeps up with current hairstyles
as a form of camouflage and the prey may
not realize that he's engaged to cougar
until he's already being dragged
helpless back to her lair now the blouse
the Cougar display is maximum cleavage
possible to captivate her prey
you're watching them bounce she's about
to pounce see the claws long and sharp
to ward off rival females or open
alimony checks
this one's a beaut go Barney
don't Mountain stuff that cooter let's
go see hi I'm Luigi Italian exchange
student I was walking to class but then
I noticed you Bella principessa tell me
what you want to get out direct I like
that
the name's Barney what I want is you
turn my place to ours see minds see what
what are you talking about I hold here
they didn't budget your time well you've
lost over some of the most important
boys and your oral presentation was
sloppy and inconclusive I think I'm
falling in love with you oh god that
wasn't your first time was it
although that would explain a lot we had
sex yesterday oh right that well you had
sex yesterday I revised my syllabus for
the spring semester I can't stop
thinking about you please give me
another chance
Barney I teach all day is the last thing
I want to do when I get home but you
don't understand see either going easy
on you hold them back because I was
afraid you'd break a hip or something
but this time no mercy I don't care how
long it takes days weeks half a year
fine come in you can start while I
finish grading some papers Barney oh my
god what happened he broke his hip
that's not true it's just temporarily
dislocated seriously I'm fine no he's
not fine loose hey mr. Eriksen hello I
graded your paper tonight I was
pleasantly surprised yeah she was b-plus
Marshall after I've gone through my
eight weeks of physical therapy I am
gonna get you that a
let her go she belongs out there in the
wild you should feel proud you fought
the Cougar he lived it wasn't amazing
safari I can't wait to show you guys the
slides alright so you should be
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